Preface

With the growth of information assets in enterprises, the need to build a rich, scalable search application has becomes critical. Today, Apache Solr is one of the most widely adapted, scalable, feature-rich, and high-performance open source search application servers.

Scaling Apache Solr is intended to enable its users to transform Apache Solr from a basic search server, to an enterprise-ready, high performance, and scalable search application. This book is a comprehensive reference guide that starts with the basic concepts of Solr; it takes users through the journey of how Solr can be used in enterprise deployments, and it finally dives into building a highly efficient, scalable enterprise search application using various techniques and numerous practical chapters.